SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, a 500K-context model for long-running agents

Grok 4.6 is a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5, not a larger base model, and matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is priced at $2 input / $6 output per million tokens, with 2x included usage in Cursor and Grok Build for the first week.
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